The emoji quiz is back! Latest challenge tests your knowledge of cars – and it’s sure to get your mind racing! Ultimate car quiz consists of 16 emojis and will test the brains of all motor-heads Can you tell which car manufacturers the emojis represent? It’s the latest in in a long line of quizzes … Read more
How good is YOUR general knowledge? Tricky multiple choice quiz tests you on geography, history and culture A tricky new Playbuzz quiz puts the nation’s general knowledge to the test Creators collated 15 multiple choice questions including history and culture Claim many fail to answer all of them correctly, despite saying it’s ‘super easy’ By … Read more
MISCELLANY UNCOMMON KNOWLEDGE by Tom Standage (Economist £8.99, 272 pp) This is what Tom Standage, deputy editor of The Economist, calls ‘a compendium of explanations’. It’s uncommon knowledge in two senses of the word: in the normal sense of ‘rare or infrequently encountered’, and also as in the meaning ‘exceptional and extraordinary’. In short, it’s … Read more
President Trump on Friday baffled observers while touring the Centers for Disease Control headquarters in Atlanta, where he bragged that he had a predisposition toward science because of his ‘super genius’ uncle. ‘You know my Uncle was a great — he was at MIT,’ the president said while standing next to health officials who are … Read more